Cake Pops are delicious lollipop styled cakes made by refrigerating small balls of crumbled cake, butter, icing sugar and coating it with butter cream or melted chocolate. Cake Pops are exciting delight for kids and could be made on special occasions like kids parties and birthdays. Learn to make Cake Pops with step by step pictures.
I wanted to try cake pops seeing all the recipe images and videos. We don’t get candy melts here but still wanted to try this with whatever available ingredients are found here and the cake pops turned out delicious.
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About Cake Pops
Cake Pops are balls made out of crumbled cakes, coated with candy melts or melted chocolate then pricked in a lollipop stick. I did not get cooking chocolate also so had to make with the buttercream frosting that I had in hand.
I made a simple butter cream frosting, frosted on the cake pops and sprinkled few edible color beads and tada my cake pops are ready! Mittu enjoyed it a lot, she loved the look of it more that she kept admiring it.
Friendship day was at its best during college days. No enough space in the wrist for even bangles, so much of friendship bands, wishes, cards, gifts and what not?! After I entered into the corporate world, friendship day was just another day except for the wishes through phone calls to close friends.
Its been years I’ve flipped through the greeting cards that I had received. I felt nostalgic while dusting down the bags for taking the cards and bands for this post. It just took me a while to those days a short rewind I would say! Will that not be nice if we have a rewind button in life?!
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Cake Pops Ingredients
- Cake – Any cake of your preference will do for these cake pops. I used chocolate cake for this.
- Butter – Use unsalted butter. Butter is used to make cake pops and for the butter cream frosting.
- Icing Sugar – You can either use icing sugar or powder regular sugar finely, sieve it and use it.
- Food color – This is optional but will elevate the look of the butter cream frosting.
- Sprinkles – I used colored sprinkles on top to make it look pretty.
How to make Cake Pops
- First crumble the cake, keep aside. Mix butter, icing sugar and beat well until fluffy. Add the butter sugar mixture to the crumbled cake and mix well. Gather to form small balls. Refrigerate at least for 2 hours.
- Then for the frosting mix butter, sugar and food color. Beat well, fill them in piping cones with a star nozzle and pipe it on the refrigerated cake balls.
- Just sprinkle colored beads. Your cake pops are ready!!
Expert Tips
- The cake balls should be as firm as possible so refrigerating at least for an hour is surely recommended.
- Use cooking chocolate or candy melts for the outer layer.
- After the cake balls are ready refrigerated, melt the chocolate and dip one end of the stick into the melted chocolate, tap off the excess and insert into the rolled cake balls pricking a little less than half way. Again refrigerate it for 30 minutes to make it set. You cake pops are ready to be enjoyed!!
Serving & Storage
Serve cake pops chilled. You can store cake pops in fridge for up to a week.
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Cake Pops Recipe
Ingredients
For the cake balls :
- 1 piece chocolate cake
- 2 tablespoon butter
- 3 teaspoon icing sugar
For the frosting:
- 2 tablespoon butter
- 3 teaspoon icing sugar
- few drops pink food color
- 1 teaspoon edible color beads
Instructions
- First crumble the cake, keep aside. Mix butter, icing sugar and beat well until fluffy. Add the butter sugar mixture to the crumbled cake and mix well. Gather to form small balls. Refrigerate at least for 2 hours.
- Then for the frosting mix butter, sugar and food color. Beat well, fill them in piping cones with a star nozzle and pipe it on the refrigerated cake balls.
- Just sprinkle colored beads. Your cake pops are ready!!
Notes
- The cake balls should be as firm as possible so refrigerating at least for an hour is surely recommended.
- Use cooking chocolate or candy melts for the outer layer.
- After the cake balls are ready refrigerated, melt the chocolate and dip one end of the stick into the melted chocolate, tap off the excess and insert into the rolled cake balls pricking a little less than half way. Again refrigerate it for 30 minutes to make it set. You cake pops are ready to be enjoyed!!
Ramya
Happy friendship day:-) totally agree with u on the cards..friendship bands.. school days was fun!!
The cake pops looks soo cute..Guess ur little one njoyed it a lot:-)
Reva
Wow, that is awesome:) glad that your hardwork paid off… your little one looks so cute:) Happy Friendship Day..
Reva
Priti
Happy friendship day to you …nice try ..looks gud
RAKS KITCHEN
Happy friendship day cashewnut ;D Hats off to your effort for making this,this looks cute as well 🙂
Vimitha Anand
Happy friendship day dear. Great effort in making those yummy cake balls even when ur first attempt was bad… Nicely done…
Nithya
Cute looking pops 🙂 I totally love the way it looks 🙂 Lets call it Indian Cake pops 🙂
The clicks with mitu are super cute 🙂 the tiny hands make the pic so special and beautiful.
I totally admire your effort in making them. Clap clap clap 🙂
Happy friendship day to my dear blogger buddy Sharmi 🙂
layaa
Happy friendship day dear.Ur clicks are awesome especially with mitu.sooo niceee and sweet.
layaa.
Rinku Naveen
Happy friendship day!! This post is just amazing! Loved it! Your little one looks cute and innocent 🙂
Great effort Sharmi!
Laxmi
Lovely lollipops.. sounds different with cake.. Awesome clicks.. Ur post makes me remember my good old school days..
Premalatha Aravindhan
Happy friendship day sharmi,very cute lollipops…luks perfect.
Prathibha
Happy friendship day my dear blogger fren…very apt for the occasion..Those cake pops look very delicious n ur daughter's touch 2 it made it extra cute…and thanks for the beautiful link,that site is really gorgeous..:)
Ramya Bala
looks very yummy 🙂 sharmi just a thought… if u get choco chip…that will also work…not shiny like candy melts..but they stick on to the cake very well!!!
Cooking Foodie
Happy Friendship day.. and a lovely recipe to celebrate as well 🙂
Sharmilee! :)
@RamyaBala : Yes I too thought soo and also was suggested by friends…but chocochipsum kedaikala the baking items were totally out of stock, mothama vithi sathi paniduchu 🙁
Kalpana Sareesh
Happy friendship to u too..love the cake pops ..
Chitra
happy friendship day sharmi.'These cakepops are new to me. looks cute nd delish 🙂
Suja
Happy Friendship day..lovely cake pops..bookmarked
Happy Cook / Finla
I have been wanting to make this but one o something else come up, i just got last week the book and then also have bought and kept everything, just need time to make them.
Happy Friendship day.
Lavi
WOW!!
Happy Friendship Day!!
A model is getting ready!
Priya
Happy friendship day sharmilee…Cake pop luks perfect with cute icings..
schmetterlingwords
The cake pops have come out indeed soo good and cute too… Lovely pics and beautifully arranged!! Happy friendship day to you too 🙂
An Open Book
i actually dont like candy melts cos they are so so soo sweet..i just dunk them and roll them in different melted choc..white is my fav so far
Laavanya
Your daughter is so cute and i love how she's smacking her lips in one of the pics… 🙂
I've liked the idea of cake pops too… yours are pretty.
Kitchen Boffin
These r jus great.. Simply tempting.. No doubt ur kid loved them
Shanavi
Cute looking Cake pops, I've also seen bakeralla's blog and this is in my list too,I must say, it's a great attempt with the minimal available ingredients there and the end product sure wow's us
Plateful
I've been fiddling with the idea of making cake pops for a while now. Can't believe that your first one was unsuccessful, especially after seeing how well you have done this one. And hey loved seeing your lil one enjoying the treat–would sure love to see more of her pictures here 🙂
Happy friendships day, Sharmi!
Cilantro
Happy friendship day Sharmilee! I am eager to see your daughter but as you said I am also against putting up my daughters picture on my blog…loved her 2nd pic.
priya ravi
Happy friendship day Sharmilee. cake pops are so cute 🙂
Smita Srivastava
Hello
First time at ur blog via food gawker . Loved going thru ur wonderful recipes & lovely pics. I had been making similar veggie Oats idlis since quite a few months (after reading the recipe from a local newspaper of course ) but yesterday I tried ur recipe which was dfntly much more tastier & perfect than the prev recipe I had been using.
I dnt know how cum i missed ur lovely blog all these blogging years. Following you too …..
Sharmilee! :)
@Smita : Thanks for those nice words Smita, am really happy to see the comment 🙂
Rekha shoban
Happy friendship day sharmillee…cake r really cute n perfect…as usual nice click!
Chandrani Banerjee
Happy friendship day sharmillee…Very nice cake lallipops. Nice pics..
jayasree
Liked your version of cake pops..This reminds me of the apple cake that you get in Iyengar bakery,CBE. I am going to try this soon. That apple cake is a favorite with my hubby.
♥LOVE2COOK♥
Cute cake pops! Happy Friendship Day to you 🙂
Angie's Recipes
What a sweet post! I love those cute cake pops!
Umm Mymoonah
So cute, would love to pick one of them.
Sudha Sabarish
Thats a lovely lollipop.Feel like having a bite.
Kaveri
These are bound to be a hit with my kids…just love them
M D
Cake pops! Lovely! I would love to make these.
Wishing you a happy friendship day!
Krithi's Kitchen
Happy Friendship day to you too.. Miss school and college days..
Loving your cake pops.. looks like a fun food for kids…
Pavithra
Happy friendship Day to u my dear.. the cake pops look sooooooooo cute with the cutie hands… she must be very excited to see and eat them right… u have done very very cute sharmi.. as always the pictures are class. Love it totally.
jeyashrisuresh
very cute one sharmi.Though i am not a lover of chocolate, i like this on seeing ur attactive clcik. Happy friendship day
Sobha Shyam
so cute cake pops dear, u r so innovative dear, cute pics of ur daughter :)..Happy friendship day!!
Divya Kudua
Awww,your daughter looks so cute with those cake pops.You've hit the nail,they look so pretty!!
Sharmilee! :)
Thanks so much everyone…yes my daughter enjoyed it very much 🙂
Shobha Kamath
The pics have come wonderful and your daughter looks cute admiring Mom's creation ! Hard work does pay !
Bharathy
Happy friendship day, sharmee 🙂
Pops semma cute 🙂 presentation um cute!!
he he ramekins thane.. sattile irukkarathuthane appale varum..sharmee atheye pathalum parva lle 😉
muffins pannavum seri click pannavum seri romba dull a iruhthathu..clicked just 10…dint conc much..not contented with the clicks too, this time..
innakku nanum paruppu rasam than pannen..your version is a bit similar. vasu like urulai than which I always make..but today i went for Keerai 🙂
Paruppu rasam and uruali…Nice comforting combo!!
Kitchen Flavours
Love the way u clicked them and lil one holding cake-pop is awesome…..i think i missed some posts here….will catch them in sometime….love that carrot soup too…looks delectable and nice presentation too….
Happy Friendship day belated wishes dear…..
TheYummyMorsel
Lovely! These sound fun 🙂
Rumana Rawat
What a awesome looking lollypop:)
Happy Friendship day belated wishes dear…..
Sushma Mallya
wow sharmi they simply look so delicious …I am sure Ur kid enjoyed having it….wish I could have some …lovely link by the way
Yummy Team
WOW! They look cute. Great job, Sharmi. Belated friendship day wishes to you!
Apu
These look very nice – like that you did not cover them with icing.
Priya (Yallapantula) Mitharwal
wow, sharmi, you rock girl, to make it with whatever you have, hats off and still make it look delicious and beautiful 🙂
Mahimaa's kitchen
wow what a pretty pic!! very colorful. i have missed so many of your recipes.
Pop.O.Licious Cake Pops
I love the frosting detail on top. Really cute!:-)
Unknown
came out well when i tried….but it started to melt once it is taken out of refrigerator…cant we keep it outside ?
Sharmilee! :)
@Unknown : Yes you can refrigerate it!